Update XIX: Melancholy and the Infinite Napping

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What will you have for thanksgiving dinner?

Stove top stuffing

Sigh....

Yes. Certain relatives of mine did this for years. I think they're disgusting. Stove top stuffing and not in-bird? An insult to both America and Jesus.

We always ran out of in-bird stuffing, but even then we never resorted to Stove Top but had a couple of bread pans with additional stuffing made.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Per this from Google's Xmas Village:

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Clearly Bushie should be considering the Philippines instead of Kenya.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I feel like if he's going to celebrate the New Year for each and every time zone, he should at least make it interesting. Have a drink from each zone when they hit 2015.  A shot of sake when Japan comes though. A glass of Tsingtao for China. Etc. Otherwise, it's going to get awfully dull watching tv all day long. At least when he watches football all day, there is a bit of suspense as to who will win.

Good grief, every time zone?  That's 39 times, and that's just using the official time zones of the world.

I don't think Bushie likely has a complete list of those that are not on the hourly offsets.  All times are Central Standard time for his convenience.
31 December
0415 - Chatham Islands
0630 - Norfolk Island
0730 - South Australia and Lord Howe Island
0830 - Northern Territory (Australia)
1130 - Myanmar and Cocos Islands
1215 - Nepal
1230 - India and Sri Lanka
1330 - Afghanistan
1430 - Iran
2130 - Newfoundland and Labrador
2230 - Venezuela
1 January
0330 - Marquesas (French Polynesia)

I won't bother with a listing of the places that's celebrate each hour on the hour from 0400 on 31 December to 0600 on 1 January.

The 0630 celebration might be a good time to take down the Xmas tree if his parents got a Norfolk pine as their tree this year.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Could you elaborate upon what, specifically, the Pope has said that leads you to believe that he is a false prophet?

He has said "Atheists who do good are redeemed" - That is false, one can only be redeemed by accepting Jesus Christ as personal Savior.

Actually that was a Huffington Post headline that garbled what Pope Francis said and was repeated by other people who knew as little about Catholic doctrine as they did, or you do.  TO begin with the headline conflated two separate statements Francis said into one.  The first was that atheists can do good, and the second was that atheists are redeemed, just as everyone else has been redeemed by Jesus Christ.  But in Catholic doctrine, redemption is not the same as salvation.  In Catholic doctrine, we have all been redeemed because Jesus paid the price for our sins, but salvation requires us to accept the freely offered redemption by accepting Jesus Christ.

Francis wasn't saying anything novel when he made those remarks.  He was just repeating standard Catholic doctrine that only seems strange to Calvinists who believe in limited atonement and thus believe that atonement and salvation are identical.

Also, you really need to read the Epistle of James, especially James 2:17-20 if you believe that faith without works is sufficient for Christian salvation.  Granted, that doesn't mean the faithful are expected to be sinless, but it does mean that the faithful are expected to make an honest effort to do works as they are able.